Summary
Riddle High School is a small, rural public school in Riddle, Oregon, serving 178 students in grades 7–12 as the high school for Riddle School District 70, a district that ranks 138th of 141 Oregon districts (2nd percentile, 0 stars). The school itself ranked 245th of 271 schools in 2025–2026 (10th percentile, 0 stars), and its rank history swings widely: 24th percentile in 2023–2024, 8th percentile in 2018–2019, 33rd percentile in 2017–2018, and a high point of 62nd percentile in 2015–2016.
Riddle has high economic need (75.84% free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025), small classes, and high spending. Its student-teacher ratio of 11.5 is the lowest among nearby comprehensive high schools — Roseburg High School is 19.9, South Umpqua High School 18.4, and Douglas High School 16.2 — and its $23,521 per-student spending is the highest among nearby public comparisons. Proficiency, however, is far below state levels: all-grade ELA 15.4% vs 43.8% statewide, math 10% vs 32.9%, and science 12.5% vs 30.6%. Eleventh-grade results are also low (ELA 23.8%, math 9.5%, science 14.3%), and middle-grade results are especially weak, including 7th-grade math at 5.6%. Note that Riddle's all-grade scores include 7th and 8th graders, so they aren't perfectly comparable to nearby 9–12 high schools.
Graduation and attendance are Riddle's bright spots in 2024–2025. The 88.1% graduation rate beats the state's 83.0% and edges nearby comprehensive high schools, while chronic absenteeism of 13.3% is far below the state's 33.5% and much lower than Roseburg (39.1%) or South Umpqua (56.9%). Both figures need multi-year confirmation, though — graduation has ranged from 58.3% to 88.1% since 2020–2021, and absenteeism was 45.7% the year before. The central tension is that small classes and high spending haven't yet translated into stronger academic proficiency.
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